We're trying to minimize the pain for the American people. And in response to Slate, there's only one side that has voted every single time, 14 times to keep the government shut down. It's only Republicans who have voted to open [the government] up. And so to think that Republicans are to blame, who vote to open the government and Democrats vote to shut it down. The Republicans would be blamed for that. (02:31–02:34)
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Asserts that only Republicans have voted to open the government.
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